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shooter opened fire during back to school mass at a church in indianapolis. a 10-year-old recounting the moment his son jumped to help him. >> my friend victor was laying on top of me making sure i was safe and he got hit. that was brave of him. >> emily: community holding a prayer vigil, this is investigated as anti-hate crime. >> brian: and r.f.k. jr. taking on chronic disease epidemic and how he wants to change medical school to make america healthy again. hhs secretary will deal with that and all his staff changes coming your way. >> charlie: two-time world series champion johnny damon joins us later this hour. we'll ask him about a massive donation he made to texas flood victims and first responders. "fox and friends" starts right

now. >> brian: fox news alert. make-shift memorial is growing in indianapolis. a gunman opened fire and killed two children and injured 17. recalling the horror they saw. >> we were in mass, it was very scary. >> the screams coming from the moms who didn't know where their kids were. gut wrenching. >> emily: fbi investigating as possible anti-catholic hate crime. >> charlie: live in minneapolis with the latest. hi, nate. >> still very fresh in the grieving process, only beginning. moments ago grandparents of a 12-year-old child injured in the attack came to the annunciation church where this unfolded and put up two crosses outside the

church. i will ask my photographer to zoom in, there are flowers outside the church. people rely on faith and community to make it through this difficult time. two kids killed, aging eight and 10 and 14 other kids injured and three peep nel their 80s also injured. remarkable courage in the face of evil. you heard that 10-year-old boy talk about how his friend jumped on top of him to protect him. he said they had only trained for a situation like this in school, not in church. the community held a vigil. pope leo ensured closeness to those impacted. mayor jacob freys more need to be done. >> these were american families. the amount of pain they are

suffering right now is extraordinary. don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers, these kids were literally praying. >> last night to prevent future tragedies, it is crucial to look into behavioral threat assessment across society beginning in our homes and extending through school districts and of course social media platforms. posted a video on youtube with a manifesto, the fbi have taken that down. there were reports the mother previously worked at sanctuary. robin westman filed a change to his name from robert westman in 2017. police are looking to learn what motivated him. >> investigators are working with other agencies in the process of executing four search

warrants. one for the church itself and the other three are resident residences in the metro related to the shooter. >> fbi director kash patel said this is being investigated as case of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting catholics. back to you. hate goes beyond catholics, to jews, to donald trump, it goes to everybody. amazing how much this guy hated. i was amazed the mayor said don't take it out on trans community, he's worried about backlash from the shooter. >> and mocking prayer and people who turn to prayer in a moment like this. >> brian: he was trying to ricochet it to guns. >> charlie: still he's mocking prayer and people who pray at a time like this.

>> emily: as one of billions who believe in power of prayer, i am praying deeply for the community in minneapolis and comfort and peace of those families. >> brian: remember that mayor made everything worse during the pandemic. he allowed a police station to burn down and took a knee during the george floyd unrest. >> emily: the point is, there is zero justification for homicide and for butchering of children. i hope in the analysis we look forward contributing factors that activated that guy to do this, get to that maniac place so that this never happens again. regardless of the hate spewed, it was evil that led to this. >> brian: between the video and multi-page manifesto which was clearly written, typewritten.

>> charlie: laminated. >> brian: you will know what was going on in the killer's head. he schemed it out before, knew the day he was going to do it and he graduated from that school. >> charlie: and anybody around him, family or other associates, when you look at that, it is filled with vitriolic hate for everybody. how it is someone close to him did not recognize this was a ticking time bomb. >> brian: yeah. we are going to get answers in the next few hours, i'm sure. >> emily: we'll bring every development to you as it unfolds. to this, president trump's d.c. crack down is seeing great success with 1100 arrests so far. >> charlie: d.c. democratic mayor says it is working with car carjackingings down double

digits. >> brian: peter doocy. >> peter: this district's mayor muriel bowser was calling the crack down authoritarian. now the stats show the crime crack down has been working, for the most part, she's a fan. we greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what mpd has been able to do in this city. the difference between this period, this 20-day period of this federal surge and last year represents an 87% reduction in carjackings. >> peter: new ap poll they ask peep fell they approve or disapprove of way donald trump is handling crime. majority, 53% approve, higher than most other issues for the president. same ap poll finds in large

cities, 81% think crime is a major problem. only 18% think crime is a minor problem in big cities, 1% say not a problem at all. and the test city for this is d.c. and numbers are all trending downward. 19% decrease in burglary, 33% decrease in homicide, 42% decrease in assault with dangerous weapon and 43% decrease in robbery. there was an increase in sandwiches being thrown at federal agents and the former justice department employee who threw a sub at an employee, probably won't be charged with a felony. they presented evidence and grand jury declined for a federal indictment. the u.s. attorney office is trying to figure out who connected to the sandwich guy talked to reporters because this

grand jury information is supposed to be confidential. >> emily: you mean the coward that ran after taunting police officers. >> brian: peter did not say that. >> emily: i said what everyone was thinking. >> peter: he threw a sandwich and the prosecutors allege, i'm not a lawyer, i just play one on tv. prosecutors allege he assaulted an officer with a foot long sandwich. they got d.c. residents who had -- together and they disagreed. this is something that happened in washington, d.c., you have democratic mayor muriel bowser saying thank you, this is working, extra feds, carjackings are down and d.c. residents are appalled by anything donald trump is doing and they are siding with the guy that threw the sandwich. >> brian: we're not.

>> emily: let's show what other mayors have to say, as well. >> we are rejecting the occupation by the military of our cities. that is actually fighting for democracy. that is required in this moment. when we fight back against tyranny, people united will always prevail. >> stop taking our cities to hide your administration failures. we will not back away from our community that has made us safest in the country. >> we need the national guard to assist us and prepare for fire season not for inappropriate deployment where they are guarding a building that is not under attack. >> brian: unbelievable. there are mayors that don't want any help, even though you have a poll that says, according to u.s. adults, 81% say crime is a major problem in large cities.

53% approve way donald trump is doing it. you have a chance and democratic mayor says it is working and it has to be temporary. 30 days and out. you have a city in chicago making stance and making preliminary plans in case donald trump sends national guard, fbi and others to secure their city as if they got a plot against it instead of working with them. you might have murder down and other categories down. felony theft is up 46%. misdemeanor theft up 61%, motor vehicle theft up 79% and legitimate people live in the area and part of residential group who says we need the help. here is cata trust. >> we absolutely need help and i've been a chicago resident, i live in the austin community where i have lived for 40 years. earlier this year, my husband was carjacked in front of our

house. if you ask me or any victim of a violent crime how they feel about crime in chicago, any of us will tell you that we are not safe, we don't feel safe. we don't feel our mrus department is doing enough. governor pritzker and brandon johnson both have security detail. if the city is so safe as johnson said, chicago is one of the safest places in america, why do you have security detail? get rid of it. strong component for defunding the police before he became mayor. i don't see him talking about that now. >> charlie: something tells me she speaks for residents more than the mayor does. >> emily: the sound bites and positions mayors take when they undercut their own constituents, who are they serving? they are serving criminals violent with impunity and those

who claim to serve the underserved communities, those are most disproportionately affected. >> brian: 12,000 cops short. the president goes in with national guard and they have massive recruiting, that would be a great thing to leave in the wake after you go in for 30 days. >> emily: to headlines, peruf i can't think police arrested a fugitive accused of murdering a mother and fleeing with his children. his wife's body was found in a national forest in southern california after being reported missing. deputies say this is the suspect dragging what appear to be a wrapped body outside of their apartment complex. the couple's three children were found safe and the da's office is working to extradite the suspect back to the u.s. and happening today, a hearing

set in idaho in the bryan kohberger murder case. a judge will determine whether the release of certain crime scene materials is an invasion of privacy. earlier this month, a judge issued temporary restraining order after victim madison mogen's mother filed a petition to block release of images, audio and video from her daughter's bedroom. police vowed they would not release the information until the matter is determined by the police. they did release photos of bryan kohberger's car. a and -- federal grand jury. they are each being charged with one felony account of assaulting, resisting a federal officer. in july migrant tried to escape ice by running into a surgical building and agents chased him

and one staff member wedged herself bean the agents before grabbing and pushing an officer. those are your headlines. reminds me of seeing democrat elected official inserting herself into federal officials and shoving one and claiming she didn't. that is assault and i see no distinction between throwing a subway at an officer. >> charlie: indeed. hhs secretary r.f.k. jr. joins us next. >> brian: that will be great. first steve is live in nashville having breakfast with friends. steve. >> steve: i'm at edley's in nashville. what time did you get up? >> 3:00. >> steve: worth it? >> yes. >> steve: she saw me at the kid rock place. this guy, stand up, i can tell lee, going to congress.

>> i do. >> steve: why? what is matter with you? >> my wife is wondering, too, we want to do a good job for people of tennessee. >> steve: what about the tennessee economy? >> we are booming right now, this is trump country. we've got no state income tax and solving illegal immigration crisis. >> steve: good luck. thank you. thank you, everybody, wave hello to the world. "fox and friends" live from edley's in nashville rolls on after this.

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>> charlie: new cdc director is out -- >> brian: yeah. >> charlie: what we're going to do is have r.f.k. jr. on in a moment. >> brian: having trouble with the shot, when we get it up, we'll have him on. we were talking about the shooting before. >> emily: two children dead and 17 hurt after a gunman opened fire during back to school mass at catholic school in

minneapolis. >> brian: we are watching together, one thing is clear, you are dealing with a person who is trans, he was transitioning, are you examining drugs that are used in order to make that transition happen and if it plays a role? there was a trans shooter in the tennessee situation. >> we are doing those kind of studies now at nih. we're launching studies on potential contribution of some of the ssri drugs and other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence. many of them, on -- had black box warnings that warn of suicidal ideation and homicidal

ideation. we can exclude those and those are studies we're doing. >> brian: i've never seen that medicine, you are saying if you get it, some side effects could be homicide, suicide? >> there are black box warnings on some of these psychiatric drugs that warn about in clinical trials they saw suicidal and homicidal ideation. we are going into that with an open mind. we're looking, a lot of studies have not been done in the past because of hippa regulations. it is something we're looking at. we need to explain why violence is happening and need to look at every possibility. >> charlie: you have a lot of things at play, whether ssris or

profound mental disease that is affecting these people and we have endured a lot of shootings over the years. what can be done about the hipaa regulation so federal authorities can get around that and examine the bodies and do forensic analysis of the mental disease that go into this? >> we have the authority to do that, we need irb approval to do those studies. we can get to that data. it has not been done in the past and we need, this kind of violence is very resent, it's a new thing in human history. no time in the past when people would walk into a church or a classroom and start shooting people.

and it is not happening in other countries. it's happening here and we need to look at all of the potential culprits that might be contributing to that. >> emily: the cdc director was fired after refusing to resign after her lawyers accuse you of putting millions of lives at risk as cdc vaccination chief was slammed. what are your thoughts on that? >> it would be inappropriate for me to comment on a personnel issue. president trump has ambitious hopes for cdc and cdc has problems. we saw the misinformation coming out of covid. got testing wrong, they got social distancing, the masks, the school closures that did so

much harm to the american people. today on cdc's website right now they list the 10 top advance, greatest advances in medical science and one is abortion, another is -- and another is vaccines. we need to look at the priorities at the agency, if there is deeply embedded malaise at the agency and we need strong leadership that will go in there and that will be able to execute on president trump's broad ambitions. the gold standard science what it was when we were growing up, which was most respected health agency in the world. >> brian: this is what the attorney says, when susan monorez fired dedicated health

experts, for that she has been targeted. she says you have a political agenda. -- resigned and david jennings has resigned, as well. is this something that caught you by surprise? what is your reaction to people getting worried? >> i think that no, it has not caught us by surprise. i cannot comment on personnel issues but the agency is in trouble and we are fixing it and it may be some people should not be working there anymore. >> emily: sir, can i ask, what is the biggest challenge you are facing in implementing donald trump's vision as a mandate by the american people to make the american communities safer and healthier? what is the biggest challenge we face? >> one thing that we were going

to talk about on this show is our newest initiative to try to get medical school to start teaching nutrition. right now only about 15% of doctors say they feel confident to give nutrition advice. seven out of 10 americans die from diet related diseases. you can reverse up to 50% of diabetes cases just by changing the diet and we have a medical community that is writing prescriptions largely and doesn't feel competent. we've gone to medical school and mcat testing companies and creditors and said we want to see real nutrition classes taught at every medical school in this country. typically even medical schools say they have nutrition classes or opportunities only give you

about 2-1/2 hours during your entire medical school. and we want our physicians to be able to give dietary advice to patients and not just lie on pharmaceutical paradigm. >> charlie: seems like such an obvious answer, that what you eat is going to affect your health. why do you think medical schools are slow to understand the importance of that? >> i think a lot of them are catching on and so we have not encountered a lot of resistance from this. there was some resistance from testing companies. i think we are close to reaching an understanding with them. >> brian: all right, i also know next month you will announce what you think is the cause of autism and you say certain

interventions are causing it, anything else you want to say to people wondering why we're having this blitz of autism in america? >> autism rates in 1970 in this country were less than 1 in 10,000 and biggest epidemiological study was done in 1970 and confirmed other similar studies at the same time. we've gone to the cdc announcing that one in every 31 americans has autism, it's probably actually worse than that. california, which has the been system reports one out of every 19 kids now has autism and one out of every 12.5 boys. this is a crisis, there is not a single cause, there are many, aggregation of causes. we are now developing sufficient

evidence to ask for regulatory action on some of those or recommendations. >> brian: mr. secretary, extremely busy day for you, a lot of change going on. thank you for joining us today. great to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> charlie: we'll be right back.

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m marsha blackburn. how are you? >> doing great. we're having a great august. people are excited about what president donald trump and the u.s. congress is doing to make america great again. [cheering] >> steve: now senator, you are just tooting your own horn because you helped pass the big, beautiful bill. >> we did, the big, beautiful bill, no tax on tips, overtime and my provision removing tax from social security for our nation's seniors. [cheering] >> steve: you're batting a thousand with this crowd. >> i am, largest tax cut in history, made those permanent. took care of small business lie edley's because we want to see

edley continue to grow. >> steve: edley's 11 locations, a lot in tennessee. you know something about cooking. >> i do. >> steve: when our first c cookbook came out, she was going to join us but had to vote on something and stayed there. you wrote a cookbook. >> i did. i love to cook. i went to college on 4h club skol -- scholarship and it was food preservation. >> steve: i took that class. >> well, i won the national scholarship. >> steve: rub it in. >> i cook lunch every sunday for my family. >> steve: what time? we can be over. >> about 11:00 on sunday out on the screened porch and just a bunch of family and friends and sometimes it is roast, sometimes

chicken, sometimes it's pork and i'm trying to get nail down a m marsha barbecue, it is not what they have going here. they have got that. >> steve: this place is trying to establish national style barbecue. carolina has one. kansas city, st. louis. >> steve: when you came in, you shook hands with everybody here. >> absolutely. >> steve: representing everybody in tennessee, you want to be governor. >> yes, indeed i do. right. [cheering] >> tennessee is the greatest state in the union and president trump is doing the best job sending responsibility and power back to the state for things that never should have gone to d.c. in the first place, whether education or energy or whether it is healthcare, we in

tennessee are innovators, we have no state income tax. and -- [cheering] >> we should be number one in the country, we should be america's conservative leader. we should be number one in conservative policies and how to deliver healthcare, how to innovate when it comes to energy generation, how to educate children and steve, we should be in the great state of tennessee, number ones in individual freedom. so that's what we're -- >> steve: and of course, edan alexander -- edley is here and would like tennessee to be number one in nashville-style barbecue. thank you for being here. >> what a pleasure. >> steve: thank you very much. [cheering] >> steve: marsha blackburn.

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>> janice: good morning. a beautiful day in new york city. i have friends from florida. >> tammy. >> lance. >> janice: what are you doing

here? >> visiting and doing touristy things. hi, dad. >> carrie. >> janice: where do you live? >> new york city. >> hello to joshua, catie and ben. >> janice: this is the day to be in new york city. 65 degrees. we'll have a really great forecast this weekend. temperatures are below average for much of two thirds of the country in new york. it is 65. 50s on the map. a taste of fall for a lot of folks. showers and thunderstorms for parts of oklahoma. flood alerts, know what to do. as we go through the next few days, places like texas in to louisiana, arkansas, mississippi, you can see potential for flooding. all of those areas in green, we are getting showers and thunderstorms across the rockies

and cold front across the northeast. potential along the gulf coast and florida heading into the weekend. over to you. wave to charlie. >> hi, charlie. >> janice: wave. >> charlie: thanks, janice. today marks 20 years since hurricane katrina made landfall breaking levies in new orleans, one of the deadliest and costliest in u.s. history. fox weather hurricane specialist brian norcross joins us now. remarkable to believe it has been 20 years since that made landfall. what do you remember about that? >> i remember when it became a category five. we were concerned about the storm barrelling in and flooding the new orleans area potentially, although we didn't know the flood wales were going to fail. southern mississippi was

vulnerable. we had seen that in 1969. it blew up into a category five and we thought, this is going to be an incredible wind event like hurricane andrew, as well. we were very concerned about that, thankfully the winds died. we had catastrophic flood that displaced hundreds of thousands and changed that region forever. >> charlie: remarkable images on the scene right now. i remember my children were younger, watching it unfold before our eyes. it was astonishing. is the city today new orleans famously under sea level, better equipped to handle a storm like that? >> tremendously better equipped. the federal government spent 16 bil billion building a flood risk reduction system, they don't call it a levy or protection

system, water can still come over, but it won't collapse. hurricane betsy, not as big, but similar, federal government built this happhazard flood wal system managed by local government and it was a mess administratively and wasn't done by 2005 and that failed during hurricane katrina. new one is strong. most metropolitan area is protected, that doesn't mean people don't have to evacuate, the city should survive anything that comes along in the future. >> charlie: amazing. thanks so much. two-time world series champion johnny damon is here and he'll tell us about how he's helping texas flood victims and first responders. first, let's check in with dana perino for what is coming up at the top of the hour. >> dana: you are coming up.

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>> emily: welcome back to "fox and friends." two-time world series champion johnny damon has donated over 28,000 bottles of hydrating drink to help texas flood victims and first responders during this incredible summer heat and he joins us now. johnny d, thank you for joining friends. thank you for generous donation, 22 palettes of your drink to hill country first responders. >> that is what you have to do, step up when people are in need. this was a tragedy, it is very

unfortunate this happened. i wish we could say we didn't have to do this. i'm glad we could help and my parents raised me the right way, any time i can help anybody, i go out of my way to do so. >> emily: yes, sir, they did, i can personally attest when one family gives, charity reached out and asked for help, you responded immediately, johnny, within minutes and said how can i help, i'm here for it and thanks to american trucking association that hauled that in incredible load for free from georgia to texas, you made an incredible difference. what is it like to make such a difference? you are a ledg end on and off te field. >> i'm trying to do my best, i came from humble beginnings

outside of oralando, florida, w do what we can. we understand importance of what first responders are doing and the floods were awful, we're going through hurricane season and we got lucky so far by the first two off the coast and hopefully there is not too much more that happens going forward. any time we could stand up and help out our community, united states of america, we will do so. >> emily: i've seen you are oftentimes at so many events and helping youth and world series little league championship game and you are imprinting on kids and influencing them the power of community and important of giving back, not just excellence on the field, excellence of history, too.

>> i'm glad i can still use my star power. people love winners, especially president trump. we have been great friends for 20 years. boston red sox and new york yankees gave me this platform and kansas city royals and other teams i played for, i tried to do my best and i always became a fan favorite because i knew how important it was to sign auto graphs and do charity work and this is where i'm at today in my world, my life. try to help out as many people as we can and i'm glad we got all the product to texas and thanks to help from others and we will continue to do some great things in this world. >> emily: that is right. what is next, for you and your family with the a game hydrating beverage? >> we're going to ccp on grinding. it is a tough business to get into. we know that we are a clean hydration drink that we will

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